Re: [Evolution] I/O operation timing out

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 23:28 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On 24 January 2014 22:22, Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk> wrote:
> > To be honest it sounds like something is wrong with your NAT
> > router/firewall in that the packets are being sent to the wrong host -
> > it could be configuration or it could just be a bug, but it certainly
> > seems like packets are going astray.
> I would agree. The router may not be handling NAT correctly or may be
> limiting the number of internal machines it supports. As a first step,
> try resetting it to see what happens.

Or the ISP is doing NAT `for you` and their NAT is oversubscribed or
saturated.  In which case you are screwed.  This smells a lot like a
network issue that just, as-far-as-we-know, manifests [at least] for
this specific use.

Can you establish a VPN tunnel to somewhere else, make that your default
route, and see if doing all the downloads over that solves the problem?

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA